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I am neither a writer nor a theorist. For a person who creates things to utter too many words means to regulate himself - a frightening prospect.

~Issey Miyake

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When I first began working in Japan, I had to confront the Japanese people's excessive worship for foreign goods and the fixed idea of what clothes ought to be. I wanted to change the rigid formula of clothing that the Japanese followed.

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Everything is an experiment.

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In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important.

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Boys have been wearing skirts for some time now. My three assistants wear mini skirts. They come to work on their motorcycles wearing mini skirts. The French saw the idea on the streets and have done it in better fabrics, and now everyone says, 'Ah!'

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Men have been buying my women's coats for years.

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The core spirit of Pleats Please is joy, and what better emotion to wear on your skin every day?

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I tried never to be defined by my past.

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I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

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I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.

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Biography

Nationality: Japanese

Type: Designer

Born: April 22nd, 1935

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